Thread by @radu_chis

The next logical evolution of the internet is happening now, accelerated by Smart Contracts, NFTs, Decentralized ID & everything blockchain has to offer.

As blockchain fundamentals keep getting stronger, so does the imperative for it to scale.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️

1/ The Maiar Launchpad smart contract for managing the lottery ticket sales & winners has been audited, tested & loaded with the participants’ data. It successfully handled the pledging of more than 400k $EGLD and will determine the winners as the network progresses to epoch 718.

2/ Internal testing for the NFT marketplace is now conducted using live mainnet data, as the last stages of preparations for go-live. The NFT service has been enhanced for better performance and collection filtering, and the content management system now has its own microservice.

3/ The consensus mechanism has been enhanced to further reduce the impact of bad performing nodes, by adding a p2p blacklist for invalid signers. As part of the Staking v4 efforts, pseudo-slashing for malicious signers in consensus is also being worked on.

4/ Other notable achievements:
* Release D1.3.35.0 brings the devnet in tandem with the mainnet
* Started the implementation of the new API route that will provide improved token economics information

5/ - Improvements on erdnest sorting
* Refactor Pair contexts implementation for more readable code & performance
* Proxy deployer smart contract that will allow users to deploy farm contracts and such, with certain limitations regarding configuration

6/ - Progress on Maiar Exchange admin endpoints
* Ongoing work on governance with new mechanics
* Fixed a trie snapshot issue regarding the incomplete snapshot data when the node is closed
* merges/releases/bughunt

7/ C++ SDK erdcpp:
* Refactor to use the transaction factory code
* Replaced balances/values related fields with BigUInt instead of string
* Added support for CLI to set network in toml config
* Continued working on scripts for integration tests

8/ - Developed stress scenario scripts for Maiar Exchange
* Launchpad service setup for contract interactions
* Finished implementation for the collateral provision & seigniorage mechanisms for the Stablecoin SC

9/ - Elrond-go node promises integration & test fixes
* Finished proxy implementation for the newly added transactions pool endpoints
* Prepared an environment for deploying Sentry code monitoring tools

10/ - Worked on a backup mechanism that syncs missing trie nodes during state snapshotting
* Growth API improvements
* Postgres indexer integration in Elrond API
* NFT rarity cronjobs for the Elrond NFT Marketplace

11/ - Integration of new BLS multi signer with elrond-go
* Erdjs bugfixes and improvements: transaction events decoding from ABI & added transfers for contract calls
* Refactor elrond-go components factories

12/ - Investigation for setting GraphQL layer on Elrond API
* TradingView integration with Data API
* Fixes for erdcpp github actions integration
* Improved the balancesExporter tool

13/ - Improved system test scripts
* Improvements on our Rosetta API implementation
* Further enhancements for Rosetta & the VM via debugging & testing
* Documentation on signing-providers for dApps, accompanied by examples
* Minor releases on extension provider

14/ - Progress on wasmer 2.2 integration into the VM
* Updated protocol tests involving smart contracts
* Added and tested pools swap enabled by user in Maiar Exchange service
* Further research, technical analysis and specifications for MEX 2.0

15/ - Implemented new token pricing mechanism for Maiar Exchange
* Various fixes and refactors on vmcommon built-in functions in case of async and cross shard calls
* Enhancement of transferRole and burn for all functionalities for ESDTs and NFTs

16/ “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish” and tune in soon for more of the #Elrondtech which powers the
@ElrondNetwork ecosystem. Check our progress & get involved 👇

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